Hi,

On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 01:22:26PM +0100, David Sommerseth wrote:
> > I'm just not going to care very much about the warnings it might throw
> > (and I might object to any patches that are "just for the benefit of
> > suppressing warnings from gcc-4").
> 
> Fair enough.  But that will actually restrain us from adding -Werror by
> default for some time forward, unless we want to make package maintenance a
> bit more tricky - needing to revert a -Werror chage or add
> -Wno-missing-braces.  If we have status quo for the moment, I can live with
> that until RHEL-7 is EOL.

I don't think we can add -Werror as "on by default" for any platform
in the foreseeable future - we'll always hit "old" or "too new" compilers
that cause build breakage and lots of extra effort to work around it.

Now, well-defined environments ("travis, clang-9, Linux") I'm all for it :)

gert

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 feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted 
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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             g...@greenie.muc.de

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